There's no such thing as Transexuals

Carleas wrote:

As far as I am concerned that equates to wishful thinking and that does not determine the truth, to rely on the majority to come to the conclusion because we all agree then it must be truth is less than insightful, as you also cannot deny that people are gullible.

@Carleas

I have no problem with trans coming up with their own language to describe themselves, in fact, yea, I encourage them to, rather than obscuring existing language, like they’re doing with man and woman.

I think you’re stretching it.
Money, language and so on are partly rooted in subjective things like human cognition, shared narratives and so on, but entirely?
When, whatever you want to call them, social constructs are used affectively, they help put us more in tune with both ourselves, and nature, with both our needs, and how to satisfy them, but when they’re used ineffectively, as is the case with trans, they obscure them.

I’m making an inference, I’m using what I’m sure of, to make a reasonable assumption about what I’m less sure of.
We all make thousands of inferences a day, and while they’re not as good as statistical research (or direct personal observations for that matter) when conducted properly, often they’re all we have to go on.
There may be no statistical research on how hermaphrodite gorillas behave in washrooms, but I’d still keep my distance from them.

I’m aware of that.
But did most civilizations throughout history refer to and mostly think of trans as the opposite sex, or did they invent new linguistic and conceptual categories for them?

Just because sex isn’t wholly black and white, doesn’t mean it’s an amorphous blob either.
I’m trying to be fair, I’m acknowledging that men and women can have physical, neurological and psychological secondary sex characteristics that don’t align with their genitals and chromosomes, while also acknowledging that men and women can’t be wholly one sex living in the opposite sex, which’s a widespread misconception held both by many people within, and outside the trans community.

I think you underestimate premodern man.
They knew enough to know peoples psychological sex mostly aligned with their physical.
I think often scientists get too mired in microscopic details, and progressives in exceptions, totally missing the big macroscopic picture and rules in the process.
I think if we’ve taken steps forward in some ways in understanding human nature and nature, we’ve taken steps back in others.
In most ways, including our understanding, humanity may be regressing, in light of all the social, political, economic and environmental maladies we face, but only time will tell for sure.

I disagree, I think I’m taking both linguistic, and ontological stances about physiology, neurology and psychology at odds with the stances much or most of the trans community is taking.

Just because we’ve made mistakes with language in the past, or rather, we’ve gradually, reasonably updated language in light of new social realities that were impossible before the 20th century and the advent of birth control, home appliances, mass production and the overpopulation crisis, doesn’t mean we ought to obscure language more than it already is.

It is how language works, 2 3rds of the English language was invented by linguists borrowing from French, Latin and Greek, and from combining and recombining existing words to make new ones.
And we have two perfectly good ones, trans-man and trans-woman, but trans still insists on ruining two perfectly good ones, man and woman, because what trans wants, trans gets, it’s their world now, we’re just guests.

If misleading people about their genitals, is something that causes many people a great deal of discomfort, distress and disgust, so much so that some of them may act out violently, why do it?
Why not just say to someone before you sleep with them: oh by the way, I don’t actually have the genitals I appear to?
Why is that so difficult?
You should be open and honest about issues that may come up in the bedroom with your partner, especially deal-breakers like having the opposite anatomy of what you’ve presented yourself to have.

It’s like the trans community as a whole just don’t care.
They don’t care about the existing cultural or ‘cis gender’ norms, they only care about their need to feel comfortable, they have absolutely no regard for anyone else’s.
They think the 99.5%, and all of reality should just rotate around the whims of the .5%.
That’s never how it’s going to work.

It’s like if I went to a place that presented itself to be a steakhouse, that was actually a vegetarian restaurant, I’d be pretty pissed off too.
No, dude, we don’t actually sell meat here, we just enjoy having the, appearance of restaurants that sell meat.
Whooooooa, dude…far out.
But dude, won’t people be like…pissed off???
Dude, we don’t care, we refuse to compromise who we are.
…dude.

If you think having XX/XY chromosomes, tits/balls and a V/P is all there is to being an actual woman/man, or mostly what there is…than I rest my case.
There is so much more to it than that, anatomically, neurologically and psychologically that trans doesn’t have, and that trans never will have, for the reasons already given in this thread, and many more.

LOL

And you don’t see the connection between the two? Doors and walls in a house, and borders in a nation, exist for the same purpose - to keep foreign elements out.

If we disregard subversive, leftist brainwashing, there’s no reason to even tolerate the “minorities”.

Reality is about imposition, of course they will try to impose, if we don’t.

You seem to have very fundamental misconceptions about how reality works.

Well, I’m off to present myself as a homeless African American, lesbian war veteran from Florida, my chosen identity, I hope no one finds out who and what I actually am, but if and when they do, I’ll just say, hey dumbasses, when I said I was X, I just meant X is my ‘social role’, not that I’m actually X, duh, it’s totally irrelevant anyway!
But they better continue to refer to and think of me as X, or else, because just saying I want to be thought of and treated as X, makes me practically and for almost all intents and purposes X!
And when they give me money because they feel sorry for me, well I get to keep it, not my problem!

Oh Gloom, you’re wasting your energy on reality deniers. Fix them at the voting booth or activism that changes laws back to sanity. Beware Canada is full of those crazies.

I’m understanding trans more and more.
Many or most trans don’t want people to know their actual sex, because if they did, many or most people wouldn’t treat them like their coveted sex, which’s what trans wants.
For trans, being treated like their coveted sex, makes them feel more like their coveted sex, which’s their ultimate objective.
This’s why they refuse to be called by their actual sex, why they don’t even really want to be called transwomen, transmen or androgynes, even tho they’re more accurate names for them.
So we’re rewriting the rules of language and socializing to make a tiny minority of mentally ill people more comfortable, and they are mentally ill (fauxsexuals), if they believe they’re wholly neuropsychologically the opposite sex, because they’re not, if they lie about their actual sex, if their gender dysphoria causes them a great deal of anxiety and depression, or if they go to desperate lengths risking life and limb to look and feel more like the opposite sex, because they can’t accept who and what they are.
Minorities are now being financially compensated at our expense and rewriting conventions customs to suit them
And in all likelihood it’s only going to get worse from here on.

I:
Fact: females have, and do, question the intent of big hulking transsexual he-she males. Why? because of a safety and security dictat.

Can that be argued against?

Would that hold up in any court case, even? assault by balloon?

This is all very Minority Report-esque, so forewarned should definitely be forearmed, and a pattern of criminal activity is obviously a pattern not to be ignored, no?

Where I live, I have had many effeminate males smiling at me and eyeing me up, but their slim frame and wide hip belied their true-born gender, and nothing progressed beyond that first glance. They had wider hips than me, and they want me to play the subservient female role? Really!

Some don’t mind faux, but the many do, so how would and does this pan out in court?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG9Q2_Hv83k[/youtube]

I don’t have a problem with transmen, transwomen, the people who are, and aren’t attracted to them, it’s the deception, and insisting we must refer to, think of and treat them as their coveted sex, I have a problem with.

This is what I have a problem with:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQy70_LPS4[/youtube]

Never mind his chromosomes, there’s nothing even remotely feminine about this guy, he looks, walks and talks like a prick.

I went and watched the full Dr. Drew’s show segment…feelings over reality. Ben Shapiro was spot on. Talk about liberal hate in general and specifically a threat of placing Ben in an ambulance…definitely a female thing done by Zoey the trans-woman. Women often threaten to put men in ambulances since it would be a cinch to do with their buffness.

While groups will always try to impose themselves on one another, we, as in those of us who care, can work towards a world where this happens less.

As a matter of ontology, on some topics it does. I can appreciate the position that sex, even social sex, is not one of those things (though I disagree with it), but denying the existence of intersubjective reality is not tenable.

Take language. We here are using words that have a roughly shared meaning. You can do empirical tests about what a word means, e.g. by telling a bunch of test subjects that the box on the right has some object they value and the box on the left has nothing and asking them to pick whichever box they want. If they consistently pick the box on the right, we’ve established an objective truth about the meaning of the words “the box on the right”. But that meaning is just a matter of agreement between people. It’s true, objectively true, solely by virtue of the fact that people agree about it.

Other intersubjective realities are political facts like laws and national borders, religious facts like “the Pope is the head of the Catholic church” and “the New Testament is the holy book of Christianity”, and economic facts like “a bitcoin costs more than $6000”. These claims are true, predictions we make about them will reveal that they have an objective reality, but nonetheless that reality is entirely dependent on what people believe. When people stopped believing that “bitcoin is worth more than $12000”, bitcoin stopped being worth more than $12000.

I’d argue that the social aspects of sex are like this. Someone is a woman in social situations if we all agree that they are a woman in social situations. If everyone in a room were independently asked to divide the room into men and women, and everyone put the transwoman in the women column, then she is a woman. That does break some implications from the statement “X is a woman”, e.g. that it entails “X has XX chromosomes”, but those claims are conceptually distinct and there’s no necessary implication. It isn’t the case that only those people who have XX chromosomes are considered to be women in social situations.

Where you make inferences from calling someone a “man”, you will often make more accurate inferences when you call trans men “men” than when you call them “women”, particularly when you weight inferences by relevance. That means calling transmen “men” is more effective than calling them “women”.

But you’re also admitting that you have no knowledge from which to derive your certainty.

I’m not sure of the ratio, but there’s clear evidence of cultures that have taken either approach (sometimes simultaneously). This again undermines any claim to necessary implication being a historical universal.

I appreciate this. But you’re simultaneously saying that despite all the ways in which someone born with a penis can have other characteristically female traits, the only characteristic we should consider is genital shape. That’s a weird thing to do in situations where other sex characteristics are much more salient and relevant. Why should generally inaccessible information be preferred over accessible information in contexts where the accessible information is more relevant anyway? (and to return your tone of good faith, I acknowledge that genital shape is more relevant in the context of gendered bathrooms, but I still don’t find it compelling)

A bit aside, but: loan words are, for the most part, not brought in by linguists but by immigration and second languages. “Shenanigans” came out of the north east not because of Harvard linguists, but because of a dense population of 1st and 2nd generation Irish Americans who grew up hearing their parents and grand parents using a word from their ancestral language with no adequate equivalent in English. No one said, “let’s make ‘Shenanigans’ a thing”, they just used a word that was already in their vocabulary, and continued using it when they adopted a second language.

In the domain people have been trying for a generation at least to introduce e.g. a gender neutral pronoun into English (ey, xe, ze, etc.). But instead, despite few people explicitly advocating for it and plenty of misguided pedants resisting it, “they” is becoming the accepted third person singular generic pronoun.

New words are coined for new concepts, or for concepts that don’t have good words yet, but more often (and particularly where we’re borrowing from another language, it’s a lot more likely to be organic use by polyglots and cultural transplants.

I am pretty sure that almost all transsexuals do in fact do this.

I think you’re overestimating this set of things. Look at the wiki article for causes of transsexuality, particularly the sections on brain structure and brain function. The neurological and psychological parts of transsexuals are in many ways closer to the sex they choose than the sex as determined by their genitals or chromosomes.

Let me use an analogy to show you the mistake I think you’re making. If I present myself as a Muslim, that does not in itself make me a Muslim. It’s possible to lie about being a Muslim, in the same way that you would be lying if you intended someone to believe your string of adjectives. Nonetheless, if I sincerely believe myself to be a Muslim, that is sufficient to make me a Muslim.

You’re offering as a reductio something that transsexuals aren’t doing and no one is defending here, so it doesn’t work as a reductio.

Who’s talking about assault? I thought we were just trading tales of unjustified fears.

Carleas, is Rachel Dolezal black?

exactly, just the fact that men have stronger bodies, means they can be more brash and aggressive, never mind the thousands of other ways men differ from women neurophysiologically.
It makes no sense to treat a man mostly like a woman or vice versa, physically, and mentally, altho I am acknowledging men can occasionally have some feminine traits that aren’t just an act and vice versa.

Yea, only conservatives are hateful, right?
Pffft

I haven’t actually seen the whole interview, going to look for it.

Conservatives are more tolerant and rational than liberals.

When transgender women go to straight, hetro clubs to pretend that they are really women, some transwomen are petite with fairly feminine features who fool most when they are glammed up, but at no time during their flirting do they confess that they are transwomen. The very fact that they are in a straight club is to fool the straight men into thinking they are legitimately females inside and out which is as Gloominary said to feel more like what they covet which is womanhood. I haven’t heard anything recently in the news about transwomen getting beaten up or killed (tried to google it but not one article surfaced), but it happened quite a bit in the '80s and '90s. Trans people play a very dangerous game when they are not honest from the get-go.

These days you’re probably right.

I’m certainly in no place to tell her otherwise.

I’ve got one for you: how many generations back before you get to your first black ancestor?

Ok, so take all such traits a biological man can have, and imagine an outlier who has all of them to an extreme degree, such that the only traits that aren’t feminine are 1) chromosomes, and 2) genital shape. In a social situation that doesn’t involve chromosomes or genitals, why shouldn’t that person be treated as a woman? By hypothesis, everything that matters about gender in that context is feminine. Social expectations and intuitions around that interaction will be more accurate if the mental model we use there is “woman” rather than “man”.

Let’s ignore for the time being that by your own admission you’re unable to actually find an example of what you’re describing, and just assume that it happens. What is the syllogism you’re plugging this into? Sometimes transwomen who go to bars and pick up men get assaulted, therefor…? I don’t see what part of your position follows from that claim (which, not for nothing, you have admitted to being unable to substantiate).

Are fears ever unjustifiable? otherwise what purpose would they be, and why would we even possess them in the first place?

…a pattern of criminal activity is obviously a pattern not to be ignored, no? and such predatory patterns have to be accounted for in amendments to laws, in order to safeguard the security of females in public places and spaces, in the same way that transsexual and vulnerable males have to be safeguarded within the prison system.